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King Lear by William Shakespeare

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katreadsalot's review against another edition

5.0

So glad I revisited this - I read it in high school but I did not get nearly as much out of it then as I did this reading. I really love this one - it has risen up to near the top of my favorite Shakespeare. Edmund really intrigued me.

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4.5

lindaunconventionalbookworms's review against another edition

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4.0

I think this was the darkest, and most disturbing of the three Shakespearian tragedies I have read this semester! Although both Titus and Othello also have a lot of violence and darkness, King Lear has two elaborate plots, two families that are being thorn up from the inside, and fathers who suddenly appear to not know their children, and start judging their children in a different way than before.

The turmoil this creates, and the utter darkness that follows is almost painful, and the whole story unfolds with excrutiating details of violence towards two old, fragile men.